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Dabangg 2

Dabangg 2 increases the dose of wannabe Rajnikanth, only this time around the serving feels lukewarm. But that means nothing to the Saman-fan now, does it? So eye-rollers like me, can continue with the eye-workout. The fans - well, like they need a go ahead from anyone.

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by Stefan S,
A Nutshell Review
...What served to be disappointing is the lack of a strong villain in this one. We know how powerful Chulbul Pandey is, so it's important to get a credible villain who could hold his own as an equal....
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So-So
by Naresh Kumar Deoshi,
Apun Ka Choice
...Arbaaz Khan treads the safe path and follows the footprints of Abhinav Kashyap in the 2010 superhit, neither daring to experiment, nor displaying intelligence any more than the character he plays in the film....
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by Bodrul Choudhury,
Bolly Spice
...However, one of the major disappointments was with Sonakshi Sinha’s performance as Rajjo. Although she was part of some major scenes, she was really just a piece of decoration throughout the film...
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by Taran Adarsh,
Bollywood Hungama
...DABANGG 2 is a typical Bollywood film. It's the kind of cinema we relished in the 1980s and enjoy to this date, but narrated in today's lingo and format. ...
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So-So
by Suparna Thombare,
Bollywood Life
...Thanks to Salman’s antics, a very predictable Dabangg 2 becomes entertaining, but only in parts. ...
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So-So
by Malvika Rao,
BookmyShow
...Considering the success of the original, retaining its high points in the sequel is a good idea. But I only wish the makers wouldn’t have stuck to it like glue....
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So-So
by Charu A Mahesh,
Buzz in Town
... For someone like me who didn't find the first part worthy of all the accolades it won, Dabangg 2 was slightly better or more tolerable to be precise (one reason for that is its shorter duration)....
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So-So
by Deepa Gahlot,
cinemaah
...Dabangg 2 has no soaring highs, but it delivers its entertainment in small, self-releasing doses and Salman Khan does it all—giggling, weeping (yes!), taunting, fighting...
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by Mayank Shekhar,
Daily Bhaskar
...The audience was laughing away, even before bothering to hear the dialogues. They had come decided that would just love the movie....
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by Bikas Mishra,
DearCinema
...Nirmala (Mahi Gill), the wife of Chulbul’s unemployed brother Makkhi (Arbaaz Khan), who is staying away from him in order to pursue her education. She plans to have a career as a school teacher like her father and keep her husband at home like a housewife!
It’s not surprising that Makkhi is just a comic sidekick and Nirmala merely a guest appearance in the film. Because men like to be served food hot and will always remain obsessed about work or sex....
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So-So
by Rony D'Costa,
Desi Martini
...Prakash Raj just barks and barks but doesn't bite. Having seen him in all his recent Hindi films it was boring to sit through his repetitive performance. ...
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by Danish Bagdadi,
Desi Martini
...The Fevicol song has some truly crass and sexist lyrics and boy does Kareena Kapoor overdo it, it’s sickening. ...
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So-So
by Smita,
Desi Martini
...Salman, my hero is perfect (He can do no wrong)
The movie thankfully isn’t even that long...
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by Ameetbhuvan,
Desi Martini
... Dabangg 2 on the other hand is an oversmart attempt at cashing in on the Chulbul Salman wave, that does not leave much of an impact. Watch it once, forget it five minutes hence....
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So-So
by Kanika Sikka,
DNA
...It is quite an entertainer, but only for Salman fans (like me)....
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by Devesh Sharma,
Filmfare
...All said and done, the cliches work because of the phenomenon called Salman Khan....
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by Trisha Gupta,
FirstPost
...They clap if he so much as stands up, they thrill to his unsophisticated dance moves, they giggle with abandon when he makes silly faces. In the face of such a loyal loving khaandaan, who could possibly summon up the courage to suggest that the brat isn’t really that cute?...
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So-So
by Rubina A Khan,
FirstPost
...The mere presence of Salman in the film makes you forget that it lacks a story; such is his persona. ...
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Free Press Journal
...The lack of even a semblance of a story is galling. The characterisations are even more caricatured. It’s quite clear that there was no script to power this project and sheer greed can only take it so far. ...
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fullhyd.com
...The plot is as predictable as they come: corruption, evil, and a cop facing all this alone. However, both Raj and Dobriyal sell the evil, in as much as evil needs selling in a film like this....
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by Martin D'Souza,
Glamsham.com
...Prakash Raj as Bachha Bhai is potent. He infuses terror when he comes on screen. Dobriyal too makes the best of the scenes he is given. ...
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by Divya Solgama,
Gomolo.in
...Music by Sajid Wajid is foot-tapping and chartbuster material, although quite a letdown as well, only if compared with ‘Dabangg’ ...
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So-So
by Rajeev Masand,
IBN Live
...Clever punch lines are few and far between, and even Sajid-Wajid's music has a recycled quality to it. ...
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by Swati Deogire,
In.com
...The comic-strip style credits in the beginning sets the tone of the film and the entertaining first half raises more expectations than what it delivers, especially in the action department. ...
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So-So
by Roshni Devi,
koimoi
...Deepak Dobriyal gets very little space as Gainda, but he’s a darn good baddie....
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by Sanjukta Sharma,
Live Mint
...The other performances are unremarkable, except a cameo by Deepak Dobriyal as the town’s petty, diminutive, really bad guy. ...
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So-So
by Janhavi Samant,
MiD DAY
...Chulbul ribs a few colleagues, donates money, teases his father, brother and wife. Wife gets angry, time for a song. ...
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by Karan Anshuman,
MiD DAY
...And the most important question of all: When will Sallu take his shirt off, what with all that teasing with the vests? Questions, questions....
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Movie Talkies
...This film might be Arbaaz Khan's directorial debut but he manages to do a great job. If masala fare is what you are looking for, Arbaaz delivers…and then some!...
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by Aakash Barvalia,
MoviezADDA
...Dabangg 2 is a typical mass entertainer and Bollywood masala film, where the main intention is to just 'Enjoy' the 2+ hours....
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So-So
by Saibal Chatterjee,
NDTV
...Dabangg 2 lacks the infectious verve and delightfully pervasive spontaneity of the film that triggered Bollywood's 100-crore craze a couple of years ago....
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So-So
by Mansha Rastogi,
Now Running.com
...Quite unlike the sequels being made in the industry which hold no relevance to their predecessor, Dabangg 2 takes off as a continuation of its first part....
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So-So
by Sukanya Verma,
Rediff
...Dabangg 2 serves primarily as a reminder of what this Rs 100 crore addiction is doing to the art of entertainment. Entertainment, not filmmaking, mind you. Even escapism deserves to be treated with boundless imagination.
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So-So
by Swati Rohatgi,
STARDUST
...His co-stars only aide in bringing out the various shades to his character. While Sonakshi Sinha is responsible for his romantic streak and only restricts herself to that courtesy zilch character-sketch and minimal dialogues, Vinod Khanna and Arbaaz Khan show his innocent boyish side as Chulbul goes ahead making prank calls to his father or teasing his brother....
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by Poorva Rajaram,
Tehelka
...Dabangg 2 is made with schematic cynicism — one can literally picture the spreadsheet of tick marks that went into its fastracked script...
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by Sudhish Kamath,
The Hindu
... Why is it so important for Salman Khan to lose his shirt in every film?
Because superheroes are all about the costume. ...
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by Resham Sengar,
ZEENEWS.COM
...Salman and Sonakshi complement each other on the big screen and together they have infused life into their marital romance quite well in the film.
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You and me definitely watched it with a different audience :) In my theater, I couldn't hear the dialog for the first fifteen minutes due to the noise from the crowd and during the 'Fevicol' song I couldn't see the screen as everyone was up and dancing on the seats!! And almost for the entire duration of the movie I had a crazy grin on my face :D Its an experience that I would pay for any day no matter how many he repeats the same formula.

Back late from the show it was almost midnight with nary a soul awake. I made myself some hot soup and watched 'Salmon fishing in the Yemen', end to a perfect day :)

posted 2 years, 3 months ago
Gautam has given this movie a Yay! Thumbs Up
(The Salman madness needs to be experienced in a theater full of crazy fans. Must watch for that!!)
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Gautam has posted 1 comments and has rated 1 movies. See Gautam's page for more details.

@Gautam - oh lovely! That's what I was looking forward to! And I agree with "Its an experience that I would pay for any day no matter how many he repeats the same formula." Doesn't make me like the film any more or less, but enriches the experience, nevertheless.

Power pack action film... Salman keeps you glued to the seat… To book the tickets download Dabangg2 Mobile app from Google store and Apple store...

posted 2 years, 3 months ago
Taj Mehta has given this movie a Yay! Thumbs Up
(Power pack action film... Salman keeps you glued to the seat)
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Taj Mehta has posted 1 comments and has rated 1 movies. See Taj Mehta's page for more details.

@Meetu - you know, DABANGG is playing at my local multiplex in upstate New York! We were all really surprised to see a masala show up right next to THE HOBBITT and DJANGO UNCHAINED - and we'd be delighted, if it weren't a Salman Khan vehicle....

posted 2 years, 2 months ago
TimELiebe has given this movie a Not Interested in Watching
(So - is THIS why Salman Khan's a star in India...?)
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TimELiebe has posted 250 comments and has rated 104 movies. See TimELiebe's page for more details.

...A pistol in hand is more than he can ask for, to fight 20 odd beasts (no one questions why they won't get him all together instead of trying their luck one by one); a spin of his arm gets his opponent down in one fell swoop; his presence most times, is enough to scare away the scariest looking brutes. He's as macho fighting the goons as romancing his wife with all the smirkish liveliness and the giggles, that by the way, does not make you balk. It only makes you fall more in love with this Chulbul 'charming' Pandey... http://eatpraylovemovies.blogspot.in/2012/12/back-with-dabangg.html

posted 2 years, 2 months ago
Mansi has posted 26 comments and has rated 16 movies. See Mansi's page for more details.

...A pistol in hand is more than he can ask for, to fight 20 odd beasts (no one questions why they won't get him all together instead of trying their luck one by one); a spin of his arm gets his opponent down in one fell swoop; his presence most times, is enough to scare away the scariest looking brutes. He's as macho fighting the goons as romancing his wife with all the smirkish liveliness and the giggles, that by the way, does not make you balk. It only makes you fall more in love with this Chulbul 'charming' Pandey... http://eatpraylovemovies.blogspot.in/2012/12/back-with-dabangg.html

posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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